The Historic Arkansas Museum is Arkansas' official state history museum, located in downtown Little Rock and listed on the National Register of Historic Places within the Arkansas Territorial Restoration Historic District. It was created as part of the Arkansas Territorial Capitol Restoration Commission in 1939 and opened to the public two years later. Today, it is registered as a Smithsonian Affiliate museum, celebrating the state's cultural and material heritage of six galleries of Arkansas-related art and artifacts, including preserved and transportation historic buildings and log structures. Visitors can view four original Little Rock pioneer dwellings preserved as living history structures on the museum's grounds, which can be explored via guided tours from costumed living history actor docents. Other exhibits include an interactive children's gallery and the Giving Voice memorial, which honors 138 enslaved African Americans formerly kept on the museum's site by landowners.

200 E 3rd St, Little Rock, AR 72201, Phone: 501-324-9351

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